Valentina Cortese
Biography
Valentina Cortese (January 1, 1923 - July 10, 2019) was an Italian film actress.
The Milan-born actress starred in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) directed by Robert Wise, and costarring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan. Cortese, aged 28, married Basehart in 1951, and had one son with him before they divorced in 1960.
She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1975 for her performance in François Truffaut's Day for Night.
Cortese appeared in Jules Dassin's Thieves' Highway (1949), Joseph L. Mankiewicz's The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Amiche (1955), Gérard Brach's The Boat on the Grass, Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and in the Franco Zeffirelli projects such as the 1972 film Brother Sun, Sister Moon, his 1977 miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth and the 1993 film Sparrow.
Filmography
Diva!
2017
- No poster
Le ragazze di Milano
2007
as Self
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema
2001
as Self (archive footage)
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
2000
as Self
Sparrow
1994
as Madre Superiora
La Classe américaine
1993
as The Helicopter Man's Wife (archive footage) (uncredited)
Buster's Bedroom
1991
as Serafina Tannenbaum
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988
as Queen Ariadne / Violet
Young Toscanini
1988
as Comparsa (uncredited)
- No poster
Facciaffittasi
1988
as Gina Grandi
Via Montenapoleone
1987
as madre di Guido
Blue Tango
1987
as Rachele Cigno
La Ferdinanda. Sonate für eine Medici-Villa
1981
as Caterina de Dominicis
When Time Ran Out...
1980
as Rose Valdez
Ring of Darkness
1979
as Elena Merrill
Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
1978
as Wilma/Leonilde Bosco Casagrande
Widows' Nest
1977
as Dolores
The Big Operator
1976
as Witwe
Nick the Sting
1976
as Regina
Son tornate a fiorire le rose
1975
as Sabina Foschini
Kidnap Syndicate
1975
as Grazia Filippini
Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
1975
as Olghina Franchetti
The Kiss
1974
as Elizabeth Blixen
Tender Dracula
1974